Below are some ideas to help your children get into the spirit of reading at home!

Perhaps once the challenges are completed you might be able to buy a new book for your child’s bedroom reading shelf – or visit the library to borrow a couple of new books!

Challenge One: Connect with your Family

Read a book to a family member, parent, grandparent, sibling, aunt or uncle or perhaps even your pet!

Challenge Two: Connect to Reading and CREATE

Cooking or crafting is a great way to engage with some purposeful reading. Choose a recipe book from home or the library and cook a recipe from this book or choose a craft book, read and follow the instructions and CREATE!

Challenge Three: Connect from Afar

Read a book to someone you know living interstate or overseas. You might like to use Skype or a phone or you may like to record yourself reading a book and email it to someone ( with parent permission).

Challenge Four: Connect with an Author or Illustrator

Look up one of your favourite authors or illustrators online. Leave a message on their webpage, blog, Facebook page (with parental guidance) or Instagram account (with parental guidance) telling them why you love their work.

Challenge Five: Connect with a Text

Read a text you don’t normally read – perhaps a graphic novel, a newspaper, a magazine, comic strip, instruction manual for your microwave…anything at all! Record here the type of text you connected with.

Challenge Six: Connect with History

Read a historical fiction book or a non-fiction book about a particular time in history which you are interested in.

Challenge Seven: Connect with Technology

Read a text (for example a newspaper, magazine, blog entry or book) using a Kindle, iPad, computer or other device. Many libraries allow you to borrow e-books.

Challenge Eight: Connect with Friends

Lend a book you love to a friend and tell them why you enjoyed this book.

Challenge Nine: Connect with Others

Donate a book (a second hand one you no longer want, or a new one) to a charity or school or library.

This term we are aiming high to achieve our personal & class learning goals. We are participating in some really challenging learning experiences, but it is great to work through things that we may find difficult.

Take a look at what we have been up to in the last fortnight 🙂
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When we respond with Wonderment & Awe, we are open to our learning and then learn more. – Mia.

Our Curiosity unit has started to focus on Space and our Solar System. We have learnt that the moon orbits around the earth and the earth orbits around the sun. The Earth also spins on its axis! – Shanti.

Here is a little fact table that we have made:

The Earth takes 24 hours to spin on its axis – Teodoro

The Earth takes 365 days or 1 year to orbit the sun. – Nicholas B

The Moon takes ROUGHLY 28 days or 1 month to orbit the Earth. – Jenna.

We have started to read the book Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. In Week Two we started to plan a model of the tortoise in the text. We will include the process in our Three Way Interviews and the final product at Open Night in Week 9! – Sigrid.

We are loving the text so far because Roald Dahl is an amazing author!

MAI Groups

This term in Mathematics, we have started Year 3 and 4 MAI Maths Groups. We are learning so much about addition, subtraction, counting, multiplication and division.

I like how you can learn in partners while playing maths games! – Luke.

Year Three and Four students will lead us all in a simple Prayer Service to mark ANZAC DAY this Friday 2nd May at 8.45am. If you have a relative who would like to attend this service please bring them along. Likewise, if you have medals belonging to anyone in your family, you may elect for yourself or one of your children to wear these during the service. Please phone the Office with details so that we can make a seat available. After the service a cuppa will be available in the hall meeting room to give us an opportunity to catch up after the holidays. Please bring a small plate to share – anzac bickies would be really great!